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Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12720, 16 February 1910, Page 4

It is strange to what impulses th 6 recent improvement in the shipping outlook may be attributed. For instance, nobody would have imagined that th© export of beans from Manchuria would have been on a scale of such magnitude as to give quite a fillip to freights by providing many cargoes and drawing ships away on long-distance voyages. It would appear that the export can b© developed enormously, and that there is a very largo market for the bean. It is used in Great Britain for the production of oil suitable for cooking, soap-making, lubricating, and other purposes. At the same time, the crushed beans form an admirable food for cattle. It is said that attention was first called to the soya bean when manufacturers of cottonseed oil found their supplies from India and Egypt falling short. This sort of thing is catching, and there is now an expectation that Central China will endeavour to compete with Manchuria for the European market.